Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1887-06-07

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mond Register.
4 VISIT 10 Old Point and Good Bye 10 the 0j0
Virginia Home.
RICHMOND, VA, June A stay Of s
feS days at Old Point Comfort in com pany
with a number Of ladies from Richmo nd, Of
whom | wss the honored chaperon, wa:
spent most delightfully."- at that elegant wa
terine place Quite town has sprung up
since that fashionable resort has been loca-
ted there. The accommodations are the
best, especially st the Hygeia Hotel, and
visitors from all over the United States are
there. The Northern people principally in
the winter aud the Southern in the sum.
mer gather there to enjoy the gentle and
health.givng sea breeze. The hotel, the
! Hygeis, mean, il a powerful structure,
with accommodations for 1000 guests, and
is novel piece of architecture. While
there we visited Hampton and Chesapeake
City, both in iux,sposition with Old Point
Hampton is an exceedingly interesting
place, with its normal school for Indians
and negroes and i,s Home for Disabled Sol
diers. We did not 90 through the school,
but from the number OF Indians and
"coons" we saw We are quite sure they are
there by the thousands. One OF our party
tried TO engage in conversation with pref
ty Indian girl, but without success. She
blushed and turned her back on the would.
be marher and the rest Of us had good
laugh at him. The Home for the Disabled
Soldiers was visited from pit TO dome by
our party and quite a treat it was. The
guide, Mr.. T. Valentine, who, by the way,
was once Kentuckian, was very kind and
willingly answered the numerous questions
asked him. In this home are $50 old sol
diers, some crippled and some broken down
with old age. Those able to do 80 work
about three days in a week and the others
lay around and play cards and billiards in
rooms like palaces, that the government has
prepared for them with money furnished
partly by the soldiers, who get no benet,
from it, Besides this, they have an excel
lent theatre, with seating capacity OF 900,
also furnished by the government, thus en-
abling the old fellows TO have glorious
good time. We we're taken into the kitch-
en-, model one for cleanliness and general
appearance. The soldiers take time about
cooking and from the bread which
the guide permitted us to taste, |
should judge that they were epicures OF
the fret order. Bills of fare are furnished
and they have every delicacy they desire.
The average age OF these soldiers Is 50 and
the death roll shows that at least two die
week The building is a commodious and
handsome one and the yards lovely, with
here costly piece Of ststuary and there a
bed OF flowers OF the rsrest kind. 1t ia kept
in fine style and the old warriors take pride
in showing strangers around.
Fortress Monroe, one OF the best garris-
oned forte in the United States, is indeed
thing OF beauty and a joy forever for the
young ladies', who seemed never TO tire Of
looking at the brave soldier boy., dressed
in handsome uniforms and as straight and
graceful az can be Unsigned. Cannon after
cannon is set here and on q minutes warn.
ing 500 could be fred, Everything is in
readiness for battle; scores OF balls are piled
up in few feet OF each cannon and powder
in easy access. The fort il surrounded part.
ly by the Chesapeake Bay and party by
an artificial canal OF about $50 feet in width
aud is approached BY bridges so arranged
that should the enemy attempt to cross they
would be blown to atoms by preparation
which il placed under the bridges and con-
nscted with the main building inside the
wall BY wire. 1t isa place OF particular
interest to me, and but for firing our read
ers would cay much more about it.
Ny whole trip has been continual sight
seeing and in every way q most pleasant
one. And now az my time for leaving for
Kentucky is but few hours of, look up
on those who have been 80 kind to me and
90 uns,inted in their hospitality, and feel
that shall say good. bye" to them with a
degree Of reluctancy l had not imagined
when left my Stanford home.